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From: gwalker@BBN-SPCA.ARPA (Gail Rubin Walker)
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Subject: Re:  Rooted Directory Problem
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Date: Sun, 22-Dec-85 02:54:50 EST
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I may have misunderstood something about your complaint.

Why don't you just use:
  create /dir XXX:[MYDIR]

instead of
  (effectively)  create /dir XXX:[000000.MYDIR]     ???

The former is the way I would create a top level directory
whether XXX is a rooted dir or a real disk like DUA0:; I know
it works for either. I just tried it on one of our vms 4.2 systems.

Given what you are typing, it seems to me that DEC is correct - seems
to be doing exactly what I would expect.

-- Gail (Rubin) Walker
gwalker@bbn-spca